{"id":17954,"date":"2021-02-19T18:47:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judaicacenter.kyiv.ua\/?page_id=17954"},"modified":"2021-02-20T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T13:07:35","slug":"posters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.judaicacenter.kyiv.ua\/en\/archive\/posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Posters and leaflets of early 20-century Jewish parties and movements"},"content":{"rendered":"

The collection contains unique campaign materials of the early twentieth century, for instance, 1904\u20131908 revolutionary proclamations, which denounced war and autocracy and called for an armed uprising, or 1917 posters and appeals to the Jewish population of Ukraine on the eve of elections to the Constitutional Assembly and the city council. The diversity of posters illustrates the variety of opinions present in Jewish communities before the 1917 Bolshevik coup as well as intense activity of Jewish socialist parties such as Poale Zion (Workers of Zion), the Bund (General Jewish Labour League in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia), SERP (Jewish Socialist Workers Party), and the Zionist Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, the collection includes nearly 170 units of storage. Among them, there are posters of the Bund, Poale Zion (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Katerynoslav, Simferopol, Oleksandrivsk, and Mariupol), SERP (Kyiv and Melitopol), the Jewish National Democratic Bloc (Kyiv), and other Zionist organizations as well as posters of Kyiv organizations of Yidishe Folkspartei (Jewish People\u2019s Party), the Free Jewish Community, and the Jewish Socialistic Bloc.<\/span><\/p>\n

The majority of the election campaign posters are calls to vote for the list of a certain party. Here are some typical mottos and slogans from Jewish election posters: \u201c<\/span>Who is with us?… Who is against us?… Vote for the Poale Zion list<\/span><\/i>\u201d, \u201c<\/span>To all Jewish workers: vote for the Bund list!<\/span><\/i>\u201d, \u201c<\/span>To the Zionist youth of Kyiv\u2026<\/span><\/i>\u201d, \u201c<\/span>On 15 November, in the hall of the Pedagogical Museum: general meeting of the Zionists<\/span><\/i>\u201d, \u201c<\/span>Meeting of Zionist shekel givers will take place in the hall of the Great Synagogue<\/span><\/i>\u201d, \u201c<\/span>An open letter to the Jewish workers of Odesa\u2026<\/span><\/i>\u201d, etc.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is worth stressing the distinctive graphic expressiveness of pre-election posters: being printed with single-colour paint on a cheap paper, they almost \u201cshout out\u201d slogans and list numbers. Using only compositional tools and combining them skilfully, playing with contrasts of sizes and thickness of letters, digits, and lines, typographers achieved a considerable propaganda effect.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The collection of posters and other campaign materials can be of interest to historians and political scientists who study Jewish organizations as well as political parties and movements of the early twentieth century. Moreover, these materials can be useful for experts in public relations who study the evolution of political advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Archival file No.<\/b><\/td>\nTitle\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\nNumber of documents<\/b><\/td>\nNotes<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets. The Bund Party<\/span><\/td>\n45<\/span><\/td>\n1904\u20131917. Call to the Jewish population concerning mobilisation. Election campaigning<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets. Poale Zion Party<\/span><\/td>\n23<\/span><\/td>\n1907\u20131917. Election campaigning<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets. Zenrei Zion (Zionist People\u2019s Party)<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\nAnnouncements of events (the report <\/span>Foundations of Our Worldview<\/span><\/i>, lectures \u201cBilus\u201d and \u201cProphets\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets. Adas Isroel community.<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\nElection campaigning<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets. SERP Party<\/span><\/td>\n22<\/span><\/td>\nElection campaigning<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets. Folkspartei<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\nElection campaigning\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets of various Zionist organizations<\/span><\/td>\n31<\/span><\/td>\nElection campaigning. Announcements of events (\u201cTwelfth anniversary of Theodor Herzl\u2019s death\u201d, \u201cA report by N. S. Sirkin\u201d)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nAhdut (Unity) Party<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nLeaflet, 1917<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/span><\/td>\nVolunteer Army (Russian White movement)<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\nLeaflets against pogroms<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets of charitable associations<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\nCalls for fundraising (for the army, Jewish theatre in Palestine, etc.).\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/span><\/td>\nPosters and leaflets. Jewish National Bloc<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\nElection campaigning<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\nPoster. Petrograd Zionist organization<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nElection campaigning<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\nPoster. Petrograd Zionist organization. Kolomensko-Narvsky and Spasski districts<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nJewish rally<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\nPoster. Bund Party<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nPeople\u2019s rally in connection with \u201cPalestinian Declaration\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\nPoster. Central Bureau of the Jewish Section of the Communist Party Central Committee (Yevsektsiia)\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nCall for subscription to and distribution of the newspaper <\/span>Der Emes<\/span><\/i> (Truth)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\nPoster. Jewish Socialist Workers Party<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nElection rally<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\nPoster. Kyiv Province Committee of the Communist Party<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nMember fees payer\u2019s card\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nForm of a deputy\u2019s card\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nLeaflet. Tarbut (Culture) Society<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nAbout the celebration of Simchat Torah\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nForm<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nBallot paper form for elections to the Provisional Jewish National Council<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nKamianets-Podilsky Security Committee<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nAnnouncement about guarding of the city<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nChild Care Commission of the Kyiv Committee of the Society to Help War-Affected Jewish Population<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nQuestionnaire form\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nKamianets-Podilsky Security Committee<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nResolution about streets cleaning.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nAbram Karnibad (Reb-Abele)<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nLetter offering to lecture<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nAbram Karnibad (Reb-Abele)<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nProgramme of \u201cArtistic Literary Reading\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nAbram Karnibad (Reb-Abele.<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nSanitary Committee of the Warsaw Jewish community<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nProclamation of the Sanitary Committee of the Warsaw Jewish community<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nJewish Committee to Help War Victims<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n\u201cFrom the Jewish Committee for Comprehensive Help to War Victims\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nUnited Jewish Socialist Workers Party<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\nAnnouncement of a rally<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nLeaflet<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n\u201cFree People\u2019s Secular School of Mother Tongue\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The collection contains unique campaign materials of the early twentieth century, for instance, 1904\u20131908 revolutionary proclamations, which denounced war and autocracy and called for an armed uprising, or 1917 posters and appeals to the Jewish population of Ukraine on the eve of elections to the Constitutional Assembly and the city council. The diversity of posters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":16367,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17954","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t